Moran wrote a GREAT post on some of the idiotic BS coming out of the Left on the Graeme Frost Kerfuffle. He argues that the Left is deliberately overreacting to the Right's critique of the S-CHIP as "welfare for the Middle Class" because they want to cut off debate. Moran is right.
But there's more going on here - and much of it is typical of the Left's approach to EVERYTHING.
The Left essentially and repeatedly argues that if you are opposed to welfare then you hate poor people. They make this type of accusation agains the Right ALL THE FREAKIN' TIME.
As a former Leftist and current Conservative who cares EVERY BIT as deeply about people in need as I did then I FIND THIS INSULTING AND IDIOTIC. I favor conservative policies and principles now because they are consistent, universal, and they work.
And so I must say that when the Left says we on the Right hate poor people that it is simply BULLSHIT. It's similar to their anti-defense spending BS, as when they say - as they have for decades, and recently, specifically about the NMD - that if you're for increases in defense spending that you are against PEACE.
History has proven over and over that peace is the result of strength and victories, not appeasement and disarmament.
And history has proven that welfare does not end poverty.
As Daniel Moynihan famously argued and as Welfare Reform PROVED, welfare doesn't end poverty; it appeases poverty.
As a very wise man once said, "The black family survived slavery, the Civil War, Jim Crow, WW1, the Depression, and WW2. But it could not withstand "The Great Society."
But despite decades of proof that Welfare FAILED and Welfare Reform succeeded, the Dems now want to expand welfare - and that's what their S-CHIP proposal is: AN EXPANSION OF WELFARE - to the middle class.
The Frost Family's Financial Facts prove that.
And - as MORAN points out - no one smeared Graeme or his family; critics merely pointed out that his family can afford to buy insurance and chooses not to.
The Left thought they had found another spokesperson with ABSOLUTE MORAL AUTHORITY, but instead they found just another middle class family who can afford to buy health insurance themselves but who would rather OTHER PEOPLE pay for it.
When those "OTHER PEOPLE" are the TAXPAYERS an the payout is managed by the STATE the all it amounts to is REDISTRIBUTION OF INCOME - and that is SOCIALISM.
Being opposed to socialism is a principled POV based on socialism's repeated and dismal failure to deliver any goods or services as well as the freemarket.
Being opposed to socialism is NOT anti-poor people. It is being for a system which most enables people to earn, buy, make, and sell what they want. Which means that it maximizes both liberty and prosperity.
China's last twenty years and Korea's last 50 prove this beyond any doubt. ANY DOUBT.
SURE: income disparity has grown the last few decades in China and South Korea, but increases in the standard of living for EVERYONE has far outstripped any disparity.
If you like socialism then move to Zimbabwe or North Korea. And remember: before Castro took over Cuba it was the second RICHEST nation in the Caribbean - to Jamaica. Now it is the second POOREST - only Haiti is poorer.
We mustn't let Hillary and the Dems do to the USA what socialist did to the UK and Zimbabwe and North Korea, Cuba etc. Socialism in China and North Korea and Zimbabwe the USSR and Cuba and the EVERY other place it was ever tried failed because it is anti-libertarian, and "prosperity is a by-product of liberty." Leftists like Hillary think that it failed because Mugabe and Lenin and Mao and Kim and Atlee and Castro weren't smart enough. And that's BS.
GETTING BACK TO S-CHIP: As far as health insurance reform goes, basically the right believes that everyone should have MSA's and that poor people should get voucher's to buy private health insurance.
This is a pro-freemarket approach, and since freemarkets always outperform state-run programs I think we should try it.
THINK OF THE POOR CHILDREN!
UPDATE: TIME magazine calls the Right's expose of the Frost family's finances THE SWIFT-BOATING OF GRAEME FROST. Gateway tears this Leftist Propaganda to shreds.
- REMEMBER: THE SWIFTIES HURT KERRY BY EXPOSING THE TRUTH ABOUT HIM.
- IN THIS SENSE, TIME MAGAZINE'S USE OF THE TERM IS ACTUALLY ACCURATE - BUT THEY DON;LT MEAN IT THAT WAY!
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